Sonic Winter Adventures Gets First Public Release

Sonic 1 hacks are a dime-a-dozen these days. This makes getting excited about them a little difficult if nothing more than a few palettes are edited and zones are sloppily renamed to fit their new color schemes. That said, it’s never a dull day when someone steps up and delivers a new Sonic 1 experience with new boss enemies, moves for Sonic, and more.

Enter Russian Sonic hacker vladikcomper and his project Sonic Winter Adventures. In similar stead to Sonic 1 Megamix, Adventures enables Sonic to enable the full power of blast processing with the addition of light speed dash, super peel out, the spin dash, and even the homing attack. Let’s give the purists a little time to seethe. … All right then!

While the level variety isn’t very boastful, vladikcomper laments, the amount of work put in so far is a very commendable effort and definitely worth playing though. Some of his bosses make specific use of Sonic’s new age moves meaning you can’t just throw Sonic’s body into Eggman eight times and waltz over to the Egg Prisonpod so easily.

So what are you waiting for? Download this bad boy and give it a spin yourself! And don’t think that beating the game means it’s over. vladik teases that more playthroughs unlock more things.

Gene is the ghost of a Floridian who froze to death in a Chicago winter. He now haunts a server inside the Sears Tower and does terrible things on this very website. Also something about Sonic 2006 100% twice. It was awful.

Also, lol @ the “Icecap is now playing in your head manually” tag. I love it when you guys add funny or fun tags that no one is going to be able to search related material by, it defeats the purpose and as such is humoring. XD

Definitely a step in the right direction. I’m happy to see such innovative boss fights that I never could have even imagined! Very nice work, and if you improved the level layout I’d give it a solid A.

I have to ask though, was anyone else as impressed as me by that SEGA logo? It startled me when I loaded it up.

Bosses need to be nerfed and this hack DESERVE new art instead of simple recolor, i know it is hard to do, but it need to be done in order to transform this hack into great game.

The story – Eggman build freezing factory machine and freeze the whole southern island. Sonic is here to return things to normal.

Here are couple of themes for levels:
1) Blizzard hill – for this one there could still be recolored palm trees and flowers in order to show what happened to Sonic’s world.
2) As Ecchi already said some ice and water.
3) Christmas eve – fir-trees will lights on it, eggman’s face snowmans, some salute – like in Sonic 4 ep 2’s white park
4) Ice Quadrant
5) Frozen City
6) Cold factory – you appear inside a giant Eggman’s ice factory, which is a reason why everithing was frozen.
7) ending is nearly the same as original one – Sonic jump off the exploding ice factory back into blizzard hill, now here is explosion on the back and it becomes warm (green hill pallete) again.

I LOVE the level design! I hope you include multiple paths to get to the end of a stage too! Also all the secret powerups are awesome I’m still finding new things. Boss battles are good too. There is a bug or issue where anytime Sonic rolls and jumps you can’t influence your direction until you hit the ground. Please fix this. Until then I give this a 4.9999/5 I need that rolling issue fixed. 😉